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Cookihg- Stove. N0.1,120. Patented April 10, 1839.

\ A J I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON ALWVOOD, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

RAILWAY COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,120, dated April 10, 1839.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANSON Arwoon, of thecity of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, haveinvented an Improvement in the Railway-Stove by Combining an ElevatedOven Therewith in a Manner Which is New and Convenient; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing is a perspective view of thestove, with the elevated oven (4, a, thereon; this oven does not differin its general construction from others which have been previously made.Two pipes Z), 6, connect the stove with the space between the doublecasing of the oven, 0, being the exit pipe. (Z, (Z, (Z, are openings forcooking utensils, made in the ordinary way. The body of the stove issustained in front by two legs, furnished with rollers, as seen at 0;its back part rests upon a cross piece 7', supported by the legs g, g,which cross piece supports the pipes 7), Z), and contains the flues bywhich the smokeand heatcd air are conducted from the stove with them.

Fig. 2, is a top view of the cross piece f, the shaded parts it, It,being depressions which constitute the flue above spoken of, the pipesZ), 6, fitting on at 2', 'Z. The fine 7L, Zr, is divided into twocompartments by a partition j, in the middle, and this partition has agroove is, along it, for the purpose of causing the sliding valves tooperate, in a manner to be now described.

Fig. 3, is a top view of the inner portion of that part of the plate ofthe stove which rests upon the cross flue f. Two sliding shutters, orvalves Z, Z, serve to open or close four openings Z Z represented by thedotted lines in Z.

The stove as shown in Fig. 1, has the openings Z in the plate at Z,uncovered, while those at Z, are closed; and should the stove be pushedback so as to bring the part Z, over the flues in f, the reverse effectwill be produced, the openings at Z, being closed, and those at Z, beingopened. The manner in which this effect is produced will be understoodby the aid of the section at Fig. t, made by a vertical plane throughthe middle of the back part of the stove in a line from the back to thefront; m, m, are two tail pieces, or flat plates attached to the slidingshutters, which two plates alternately pass into the groove 70, which byits oblique direction, works the sliding shutters, closing the openingwhich are removed from over the flue f, and opening those which pass onto them. It will be seen that by this arrangement a direct draft may beproduced under the whole of the cooking utensils, or under those merelywhich occupy the front part, the change being made at pleasure, andinstantaneously.

lVhat I claim as my invention is The manner in which I have constructedand combined the respective parts of this stove, so as to produce theeffect set forth, namely: the combination of the fines marked f, withthe openings in the back of the stove, governed by sliding shutters,moved back and forth by the pins, or plates, which pass through thegroove is, and connect the stove with the pipes 6, Z), and the elevatedoven, by either set of openings made for that purpose, the wholeoperating substantially in the manner set forth.

ANSON ATWVOOD. lVitnesses CLEMENT T. Coorn, LINTON THORN.

